Why India Can’t Innovate
Right now, we are too distracted to innovate. And too invested in keeping people distracted. Who needs innovation when you can manufacture quick public outrage as and when needed?
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Great Nicobar Project Disaster; Project Will Wipe Out Indigenous Tribe – 2 Articles
‘Great Nicobar: Disaster in the Making’: The mega project on the island was cleared using incomplete, inaccurate data, grossly underestimating its environmental and biodiversity impact. Also: ‘Great Nicobar Project Will Result in Genocide of The Shompen: International Indigenous Rights Body Writes to UN’.
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Mumbai: Dharavi Rehabilitation; Privatisation of Public Hospitals – 2 Articles
‘Mumbai’s Move to Privatise Five Government Hospitals Will Hit Slum Dwellers Hard’: The city’s municipal corporation is handing over the health facilities to private players soon after funding their expansion. Also: ‘Here’s Why Maharashtra Govt Decision to Move Dharavi Residents to Deonar Is a Problem’.
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Dilution of the Atomic Energy Act Will Hurt the National Interest
Dilution of the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act to attract private investment from the US and other countries will hurt the national interest and India’s emphasis on self-reliance in the field of nuclear development. An appeal to the Prime Minister not to yield to external pressure.
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India Comments on Treatment of Hindus in Bangladesh But Must Know its Treatment of Muslims has Repercussions: Debapriya Bhattacharya
Bangladeshis believe that New Delhi bears collateral responsibility for sustaining Sheikh Hasina’s rule, says the distinguished Bangladeshi economist.
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Row Over Urdu; Supreme Court Judgement on Urdu – 3 Articles
‘Urdu’s Exile Diminishes Indian Pluralism’; ‘Row over Urdu and a Tale of Two Non-Hindi Knowing Prime Ministers of India’; and: ‘Supreme Court Verdict Allowing Urdu Signage Reaffirms that India is a Multilingual Democracy’.
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BJP-Sangh Imposing Vegetarianism on All of Us – 3 Articles
‘Food as a Victim of BJP Politics’; ‘The Sangh’s Sustained Campaign Against Non-Veg Food is a Step Towards Becoming a Hindu Pakistan’; ‘Better Nutrition and Better Attendance – Yet Eggs are Being Removed in the Mid-Day Meal Scheme’.
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Faith in the Forests: in Jharkhand, a Challenge to Hindutva from Adivasis Following the Ancient Sarna Faith
Adivasi assertion, tribal identity, and religion converge in Jharkhand’s movement for recognising the Sarna code as an official religion. The revival of this nature-worshipping tribal religion in Jharkhand, where over 4 million registered themselves as Sarna even in the 2011 Census, has hurt the BJP electorally in the state.
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Forgetting Nellie: Forty Two Years and Counting
In February 1983, in one of the nation’s bloodiest pogroms, over 2000 Bengali-Muslims were killed in the wake of the Assam agitation. What happened in Nellie continues to reverberate in the everyday persecution of Indian Muslims. Nellie, more than a memory, stays with us as a metaphor. Preserving its memory is an assertion of itself.
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Trump’s Tariff War – 2 Articles
‘Liberation Day’: Trump’s tariffs will not be a liberation but instead only add to the likelihood of a new rise in domestic inflation and a descent into recession. Also: ‘In Trade War with the US, China Holds a Lot More Cards Than Trump May Think − In Fact, It Might Have a Winning Hand’.
